Gross Grub Video 6: Giant Chinese Cockroach?

Uhm, This one took a serious effort…

GROSS GRUB Video 6 – Giant Cockroach

Sorry – just one – I couldn’t bring myself to eat anymore.

I reached down into the bowels of where my inner strength resides (or hides)…

I dove deep into the stuff that MAKES MEN…

and I pulled out this trick… I can’t believe I ate this thing. It was about 4 inches long and thick. Good thing it was fried or I’d have been heaving before I even tasted it.

The taste wasn’t anything special. It’s odd – yes, that’s for sure. Each bug had a different taste.

The – TEXTURE – now that was special. Imagine 6 legs of this beast in your mouth – getting caught between teeth and just not breaking down due to the chewing process being entirely inadequate.

Man was not MADE to eat these cockroaches. I know that now. There are other things we were not made to eat either – and one of them put me in the hospital – more on that later – just keep watching the series…

After I bit the head off this critter I looked into his thorax and saw some white gushy mess. Apparently they didn’t fry this baby as well as they should or COULD have either.

Oh well – it’s for traffic… it’s all for the love of Mother Google so anything goes…

Video:

Eating GIANT Cockroach >

Gross Grub Video 5: Hellgrammites!

I have no idea if these are hellgramites. In fact, I doubt that they are.

They LOOK like hellgrammites from what I remember about fishing in the northeastern USA. Every now and then one of my uncles that took me fishing would get a small styrofoam half-cup of these nasty things. They were not NEAR this big – and as I remember the fish didn’t like them either.

These things are nasty and they look like they have fangs. They look like wasps without wings and with fangs.

So, that’s my take on them. As I ate them all I could think about was fishing with them – putting them on the hook while hoping to avoid a bite or sting.

Video:

Eating Hellgrammites >

Gross Grub Video 4: Black Beetles!

Black beetles were on the menu next…

You are seeing this Gross Grub Series as a day to day series, but in fact they all happened on the same day in the span of about 2 hours. By this point I’d already eaten 4 things and only had some strawberry Fanta to wash it down. Which, if you engage in this type of consumption, I’d recommend as it washes away the buggy aftertaste pretty well.

Black beetles on left.

My apologies for the lack of detail in the photo – my attempt at a closeup got too close and it was a blurry mess. This is the better photo if you can believe that. Those are the black beetles on the left. On the right are crickets – and I think I inadvertently mixed the crickets with the grasshoppers back on day 2.

The beetles weren’t so bad really – one of the easier bugs to go down. Not as good as grasshoppers, but OK if you just have a minute to eat and grab a handful. You’ll probably be able to stomach them.

Eating Black Beetles >

Gross Grub Video 1 – Ant Larvae

Gross Grub 1:
Queen Ant Larvae

Living in
Thailand is
quite a lot
of fun…

today Ant Larvae for lunch,
tomorrow _______s

(You can wait and see what it is tomorrow – but, quite a bit MORE disgusting than just ant larvae!

QUITE a bit more horrifying than just eating ant larvae.

You decide…

So, I was an ant larvae virgin… I’ve stayed a virgin for most bug consumption here in Thailand – I don’t know HOW I’ve gotten away with only eating some rice bugs so far. I’ll push the boundaries of good taste in the coming pages though… In fact, today I’ll saddle up the girlfriend and we’ll head to the market.

The market is a bastion of atrocity… a market of horrors… I’ll eat whatever I think I can stomach – and probably some of what I CAN”T stomach.

No wretching.

So – enjoy this video – these ant larvae WERE NOT BAD. They had an acid like TWANG to them that is unexplainable in words. Tasty, but not like I want to add them to my diet on a regular basis.

This video is part of my Gross Grub Series on YouTube…Check it out!

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Video:
Eating Ant Larvae for Lunch..